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Head of a Woman

Date

350–300 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta with clay slip

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Tarantine)

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

The head, set on a flared neck, presents a broad face with eyes that have outer edges turned downward and eyebrows contiguous with the upper eyelids. The thick nose has broad nostrils; the fleshy mouth is elongated, very roughly finished, and apparently twisted in a grimace. Deeply-incised, flame-shaped locks frame the face, while the rest of the hair is pulled back and covered by a sakkos, or cloth cap. The ears are adorned with spherical earrings.

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